2025 CALENDAR PHOTO ENTRY TIME
It's that time of the year when we ask you to send us image of your dogs to put into our 2025 rescue calendar.

The GSD does not need to be a rescue however we do ask for a few things:
*Portrait orientation is a must (not square or landscape)
*GSDs only (no other breeds or humans)
*Must be emailed to us - don't forget to tell us their name
*Can be Action, Pose, Winter, Christmas themed, Water baby etc
*Enter as many images as you want
*No watermarked images will be accepted.
*If the image was taken by someone else please confirm permission to use the image has been given to you
*Please make sure image is in focus or it will not be considered

Entries must be in by 4th May 2024

And MUST be emailed to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Don't miss the best event of 2024 - Pop it into your diary now!  Vogrie is booked for Saturday 27th July 2024 for our annual dog show.

"WHERE DO YOUR DONATIONS GO?"
We think it is important to tell you where your donations go.
There are the obvious things like food, bedding, kennelling and toys and this all mounts up each month. We also ask trusted trainers to go out to new homes and give advice to new owners to help our dogs resolve their issues so they don't need to find another new home, that can be expensive too.

And then there are the big expenses like the gorgeous white boy Cammy that you all helped with recently when we did a fundraiser for his costly treatment. He is now happy and living his best life in his forever home.

Today's tale of another boy we have just helped will probably make you sad and angry.

This handsome young boy is Noah. And Noah was found straying in the Scottish Borders. He was such a nice natured boy that it was certain that he must have a home that was missing him! Noah was scanned and chipped but the details were for his first owner. He was contacted and advised that Noah and his brother had been bought as puppies to be security dogs but Noah was too nice and wouldn't bite the training equipment. He was re-homed as a pet dog and a contact number was obtained but his new home didn't sound so good. Owner no 2 was contacted and was really abusive (words were used that we can't repeat on here) but he made it quite clear he DID NOT want the dog back!

So we were asked to help. Our volunteer assessed Noah and found him to have the sweetest nature, but seemed a little too quiet for such a young dog. He loved everyone and just wanted to please. He was calm around livestock and kids, his obedience was impeccable and for such a big dog and he was amazing on his lead. We brought him to our kennels to assess him further and test him with other dogs.

He arrived and won everyone over very quickly, he was a little enthusiastic with other dogs initially but did not have a bad bone in his body. He should have been so easy to re-home.

"Why was he found as a stray?" I hear you ask. That was to become quickly apparent the more he exercised. He became lame after just a couple of weeks. Several trips back and forward to the vet and Elbow Dysplasia was suspected. Amongst other things a CT scan at a cost of £1300 was carried out and poor Noah was found to have severe ED which had been left so long that an operation to repair it was now no longer an option. Pain relief and limited exercise was now the only option.

This poor boy it would now seem had been "dumped" and left to fend for himself.
And how does a rescue find a home for a young dog with serious joint issues that can only have limited exercise? With great difficulty is the answer!

But Noah had a guardian Angel watching over him, and a family that met him and fallen in love with him heard of his fate and asked if they could foster him. So Noah has landed on his paws and will be taken care of by the rescue for everything he needs with a loving family looking after him, and a little dog to snuggle up to him.

This sad story is just one of many that comes our way. Noah's vet bills have reached £2311 so far and his pain relief will be costly each month. This is where some of your fantastic donations go. There are lots of ways you can help us.......
*Monthly direct debits (get intouch for details)

*One of donations (Paypal or Go Fund Me details are on our website)
https://gofund.me/4482695c

*Sponsor a rescue dog (great gift idea) on our website
http://www.german-shepherd-rescue-scotland.org.uk/sponso.../

*Fundraise for us - do a walk, run a marathon, have a bake sale or a dog show

*Donate to our wishlists (found on our website)

Thank you to each and every one of our supporters for helping us. As you have read every little penny counts

WOW our 2023 show fundraising total is in and its an amazing £8090!!!

We have to thank a lot of people for supporting our event. Firstly thanks to YOU our supporters. Without you all coming along with your dogs and spending your pennies there would be no show. So thank you all for your continued support. We hope you all had as much fun as we did.

Thank you to all our volunteers and helpers who made the show possible. An early morning and long day was had by all. Thanks to each and every one of you for the part you played (behind the scenes setting up and helping at the event).
Thanks to everyone who donated to our tombola, raffle and home baking. These all help us raise the much needed funds.

To Nadia at Yellow Dog photography with help from Riz for taking some brilliant photographs of individual dogs and to David @CanisScotia for capturing the winners and their rosettes.

Thanks to Nick, Simon and Iain, our judges for the day, and their helpers Marion and Karen, this is undoubtably the toughest job of the day.
Thanks to all our stall holders for coming along and supporting our event.
Thanks to John for being our first aider on standby.
And finally a big shout our to George Bell our MC for the day who kept everyone right.

You are all amazing and shout give yourselves a massive pat on the back for helping us raise this fabulous amount